A researcher from the U.K, Mark Gasson, has become the first person in
the world to be infected by a computer virus. Technically speaking, the
chip that Gasson inserted into his hand is infected, "which one could
argue keeps the virus limited to the domain of the chip even though it
lives inside the man." Continue reading for the news report and more
information.
But Gasson, of the University of Reading's School of Systems Engineering, suggests this argument is immaterial because he is demonstrating that increasingly sophisticated medical implants will become vulnerable to computer viruses. Which means that those implants that are vital to a human's health and survival could, if corrupted, compromise the health--and potentially the survival--of the carrier.
But Gasson, of the University of Reading's School of Systems Engineering, suggests this argument is immaterial because he is demonstrating that increasingly sophisticated medical implants will become vulnerable to computer viruses. Which means that those implants that are vital to a human's health and survival could, if corrupted, compromise the health--and potentially the survival--of the carrier.
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